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I find this interesting in what it lacked: * No Google / Twitter / Facebook / Amazon * No news networks (except NPR) * Hardly any corporations except for Tesla, Space X, AMD, Lego and IKEA * No GTA, FIFA, large corporate games * Only 6 actual people (1/3 of which was the Dutch dutchy) * No films * No iconic logos - e.g. Olympics rings, Nike, McDonalds
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Yeah, look on the Far Left (/r/TheFarLeftSide/). Reddit's radical leftist contingent spent a tremendous amount of time protecting the hammer and sickle, Comrade Party Parrot, and BLM from brigading by the far right. In fact, I'd argue that one of the reasons there wasn't more ugly trolling and hate speech is that the alt-right were mainly wasting their time trying to deface the FarLeftSide rather than producing anyth…
>ugly trolling and hate speech is that the alt-right Or your preconceived notions of conservative people are wrong.
It's not a preconceived notion that /r/the_donald is filled to the brim with hate speech and trolls. You simply have to go there and look for yourself.
I find this interesting in what it lacked: * No Google / Twitter / Facebook / Amazon * No news networks (except NPR) * Hardly any corporations except for Tesla, Space X, AMD, Lego and IKEA * No GTA, FIFA, large corporate games * Only 6 actual people (1/3 of which was the Dutch dutchy) * No films * No iconic logos - e.g. Olympics rings, Nike, McDonalds
Don't know what "dutchy" is supposed to mean but those are the king and queen.
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They didn't ban political symbols, they ban bullying and acting disrespectfully. The swastika fits that, the LGBT flag doesn't. This might not be the case, but it feels like you're acting naive to further an agenda.
If that's the case, I have to say that for the political views of many people, an LGBT flag is as disrespectful or dangerous to society as a swastika can be to any individual or group. Being unable to see that just proves further that reddit admins are biased. I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything; everybody has their own views and trying to change them over the internet is a waste of time. So this off-topic…
> are you actually comparing Nazi symbolism to the LGBT flag?
Again, you're comparing a symbol for a culture/organization that committed _genocide_, to the symbol of a group that was a victim of that genocide. Then you have the audacity to say they could be similarly offensive?
Take your thinly-veiled fascism elsewhere.
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That's why I separated the kind of bullying it is. Maybe I didn't explain my thought-process very well, but the idea is it may have not been directed specifically to bully, but by making statements, like "you're taking offense to pixels", there is an unintentional/passive form of bullying going on. It gives off the feeling of "well not everybody feels this way so it's just you and you shouldn't really be feeling this…
Somebody who does not even know you exist, puts up a drawing which they have no idea whether you will see or not, for their own purposes which you have no way of knowing, and you happen to come across it and feel bad. I think it's not fair to the word "bullying" to use it in this context. There's a point where the word is no longer appropriate--I think "passive" bullying is an oxymoron. A bully is someone who targets…
What community does the swastika represent and what are their ideals?
The 'passive' bullying is done by displaying the symbol in a public space to 'bully' those who recognize it as a message that they are not welcome and not wanted in that space.
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There was another fascinating aspect of politics that sprang up due to Place: inter-community politics. My community (Madoka Magica) was continuously communicating with our neighbors on all sides, ranging from the gigantic PrequelMemes to our right, Canada to our south, Homestuck, the Greek and Turkish flags mentioned in the article (which really were warring for quite a time before the heart appeared), and even tiny…
I still cannot believe how large and clean that /r/PrequelMemes logo came out. It was a lot of text too, which made it all the more impressive.
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What I am saying is that politics is an externalization rather than an internalization--which is very far from meaningless. Your why doesn't matter (and it's one reason why the right wing's "but I didn't support the Republicans because of racism" is so hollow). Your what matters. And it matters to other people. It's inescapably political because you live in a polity and your decisions impact other people. See, for ex…
> Your what matters. And it matters to other people. It's inescapably political because you live in a polity and your decisions impact other people. By the same standard, then, I can safely write off BlackLivesMatter as a group whose members are inherently racist, and in some cases engage in literal terrorism (definition: violence applied for political goals) with the sanction of the larger group? Why or why not? You…
They were describing a situation of 99% bad people where you write off the 1%. You seem to be describing the inverse. That's not the same standard.
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> I don't think there is anything actually political on the final /r/place piece other than country flags. There are various flags of different anarchist movements, very long trans* flag, LGBT flags here and there. IMO, all these count as "actually political".
Yeah, look on the Far Left (/r/TheFarLeftSide/). Reddit's radical leftist contingent spent a tremendous amount of time protecting the hammer and sickle, Comrade Party Parrot, and BLM from brigading by the far right. In fact, I'd argue that one of the reasons there wasn't more ugly trolling and hate speech is that the alt-right were mainly wasting their time trying to deface the FarLeftSide rather than producing anyth…
They should make a jigsaw puzzle of this. It would be entertaining.
> 16-bit palette Did they mean 16 color palette?
It was typical of computer games in the early noughties. It gives you a reasonable range of colours with only 2 bytes per pixel, which mattered then!
EDIT: Oh, and green gets the extra bit because your eye can perhaps perceive more shades of green than other colours.